Features:

• Enhanced Interface
• Improved Multiplayer
• Core Game Improvements
• Baldur's Gate 2 Features
• New Cinematics
• Ongoing Support
• and more...

Chaos threatens to overwhelm the Sword Coast. The state of Amn is under siege to the south, the High Moor is being overrun in the north, and the region around Baldur's Gate is in turmoil. In an area known for its ample resources, a crippling shortage is slowly developing for the metal that is used throughout the Realms for everything from swords to forks--iron. When iron ore reaching the region is smelted, the resulting wares are plagued with brittleness such that they crack and break with little more than normal use. What is worse, trading caravans coming from all directions into Baldur's Gate are under constant attack from bandits and cutthroats who loot not for gold and gems (although they often take those too), but for iron.

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Baldur's Gate is a near-perfect adaptation of the classic tabletop, role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Six separate races and eight core character classes, from which the player can create a completely original character, are available. The game world is well painted, and players are free to explore this wonderfully textured game environment in any way they see fit, all against the backdrop of a thoughtfully conceived and versatile plot.

You begin the game as a young orphan living with your stepfather within the safe confines of a scholarly community. It is a happy and idyllic life until your stepfather is killed and it becomes clear that you are intended to be next. You, as the young protagonist, then set out to discover just what kind of a mess you're in. During the adventure, you recruit a number of personable allies, battle foes, delve into dungeons, trek across wilderness, solve puzzles, and complete a plethora of epic quests that are seamlessly sown into the fabric of the overall plot. The story line unfolds in response to your choices to reveal your character's true identity as well as the nature and motive of your enemies.

This 1998 Role-Playing Game of the Year is a masterpiece and the standard by which all such games will be judged for the foreseeable future. Groundbreaking 32-bit graphics, 3-D sound, multiplayer options, and a friendly real-time game engine are blended with a depth of plot in a way that redefines the genre.

Features:

• 10,000 scrolling game screens
• 7 chapters with dozens of subplots
• Hundreds of intricately rendered and visually stunning hi-res buildings
• Guide a party of up to 5 characters, each with their own personalities and dispositions
• Create your own character
• Versatile and responsive plot
• Entertaining character interaction
• Huge game world
• Friendly game engine
• 5 CDs filled with prerendered backgrounds, compelling music, and gameplay

A new chapter in the popular adventure game, based on the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, which, in turn, is based on the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game system. Essentially an add-on to the original version of the game, this chapter asks you to continue with the character you created in the original.

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Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast delivers what we've all been screaming for--more Baldur's Gate. Although it does not significantly extend the story line, it does provide enough new goodies to augment an already great game.

Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast provides four new areas for you to explore, all of which share the richness that made Baldur's Gate a groundbreaking masterpiece. Players are given the opportunity to explore a few new islands, visit a suburb of Baldur's Gate, and engage in a good old-fashioned dungeon crawl beneath Durlag's Tower. Players can also embark on a quest that will take them back into the city of Baldur's Gate itself. These new quests tend to be even more involved and challenging than those found in the initial game, as they gravitate more toward puzzle solving than pure combat.

The additional areas are at least as satisfying as any found in the original, featuring three new types of monsters as well as new magic items, enemies, and spells, all of which are woven seamlessly into the game play. Those who are already deeply involved in a campaign or have already completed the game need not start over to take advantage of the expansion. Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast raises the character experience cap by at least one level and can be integrated at any time during your campaign, easily providing an additional 20 hours of game play.

For a Baldur's Gate enthusiast, the four new areas alone make this expansion worth having. An added treat is the included software utility that allows players to speak to each other online via microphone, giving multiplayer games a live role-playing feel. Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast may tend to give you more of the same, but in this case, you wouldn't have it any other way.

Features:

• New areas just as good as first ones
• Powerful new magic items and increased experience cap
• Enables your BG characters to get tougher, ready for Baldur's Gate 2
• Free online speech software

In Baldur's Gate (Role Playing Game of the Year, 1998), with expansion pack Tales of the Sword Coast (included in this pack), deeds are rewarded with vast treasures of legend, glory beyond compare and a world rescued from the brink of disaster!

Unleash your imagination in a fantasy world where heroes use magic, steel and their wits to battle fearsome monsters and unscrupulous villians. Guide your party of adventurers from the bustling medieval city of Baldur's Gate through hundreds of quests and challenges that will take you on a journey that you will soon not forget!

Features:

• Huge game world - 5 CD's filled with nearly 10,000 scrolling game screens in lush 16-bit SVGA graphics.
• Gripping non-linear adventure that spans 7 chapters, with dozens of subplots that branch in and out of the main scenario. Your decisions affect subsequent chapters and the entire gameworld as a whole.
• Set in TSR's best selling Forgotten Realms campagin setting, the most popular of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game worlds.
• Explore hundreds of intricately rendered and visually stunning hi-res buildings and structures: taverns, temples, houses, arenas, stores and brothels are meticulously created.
• Guide a party of up to five other characters, each with their own personalities and dispositions. Allows you to control party characters one at a time or as a group.
• Create your character from a combination of six authentic AD&D races - human, elf, half-elf, dwarf, gnome, halfling and 26 different classes - fighter, thief, cleric, mage and subclasses such as druid and specialist mage.
• Features real-time environmental effects such as rain, snow, lightning, and fog, day and night lighting, as well as interior and exterior lamps and magic spells.
• Three new world areas added to the Baldur's Gate world with the expansion - the town of Ulgoth's beard, Durlag's Tower and a mysterious island.
• Expand the game world with your party of adventurers from your current game of Baldur's Gate.
• Join up with new friends or meet old enemies - Tales of the Sword Coast works like a plug-in for Buldur's Gate. Actions in the original release impact events in the game.
• Numerous improvements in the interface and the game system based on fan input.
• More powerful spells, and additional enchanted items to be found.
• Roger Wilco Voice Communication - Discuss your gaming experience with your team in a far more personal way over the internet without having to interrupt your gameplay, audio or game performance.

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn is the sequel to the "Game of the Year" Baldur's Gate. Having sold over 1 million units worldwide, it remains a top-selling PC product. Baldur's Gate II builds upon the success of the franchise and takes the RPG experience to new levels of high-fantasy gaming. Gameplay-enhancing features include 3D graphics support, dazzling new spell effects, improved multiplayer capabilities, subquests based on class, new classes and a new character race. Baldurs Gate II contains more spells, weapons and monsters than any other licensed AD&D game to date. It is the continuation of the Baldur's Gate epic plot developed by Bioware Corp (MDK2, Baldur's Gate, Tales of the Sword Coast, Neverwinter Nights) and published by Black Isle Studios (Planescape Torment, Fallout 2, Icewind Dale).

In Shadows of Amn, you face an uncertain future, with a lineage that tempts the unscrupulous to use you and the ignorant to fear you. You will face a foe that views you as no more than chattel and that toys with you at every turn; a villain whose goals go beyond a quest for power and who threatens to use a lost companion as a tool for unparalleled destruction. The choices to be made will not be easy, and you may have to align with the lesser of evils, even though all evils cannot help but seem equal. In the end you will have mourned lost loves, celebrated new ones, and had adventures that profoundly shaped the Realms.

Features:

• An epic continuation of the plot that was started in Baldur's Gate
• Over 300 spells like: time stop, finger of death, chain lightning, and more
• Over 100 subplots in the game, some taking "real-time" days to complete
• Create a new character or import your Baldur's Gate character in to Baldur's Gate 2 and continue the epic saga
• New weapons and AD&D proficiencies
• Real-time gameplay with the ability to pause at any moment and custom script your characters
• Improved multiplayer support for up to six players for the ultimate roleplaying experience

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, the add-on pack to Baldur's Gate II, expands and enriches the gameplay experience by adding several new locations, high-level spells, and powerful new characters to the Baldur's Gate II game. Set in the Forgotten Realms campaign world of Dungeons & Dragons, Throne of Bhaal is the ultimate conclusion of the Baldur's Gate legend, as gamers fulfill their destiny as the child of Bhaal, god of murder.

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal takes players through an all-new story line, rich with intrigue and treachery, as they unravel the mysteries of the Dungeon of Watcher's Keep and explore other new areas, such as the City of Saradush, the Fortified Monastery of Amkethran, Sendai's Underdark Fortress, and the player's own Abyssal Stronghold. Throughout their journey, characters may reach up to level 40, made possible with a raised experience cap of 8 million points, quite possibly the highest level ever achieved by characters in any Advanced Dungeons & Dragons computer game. Also included in the quest are more than 40 powerful high-level spells and abilities. The Wild Mage Character Kit will also be added to the already extensive class list, allowing gamers to create a powerful new character able to cast spells, with very unpredictable results.

Baldur's Gate II players will be pleased to hear that Throne of Bhaal is fully playable either while questing through their BG II adventure or after they have completed BG II.

Features:

• Adventure deep into the lands of Tethyr with a new story and add-on areas
• Achieve up to character level 32 with an experience point cap of 8 million
• Powerful high-level abilities for higher level characters.
• New Wild Mage character kit.
• Encounter dangerous new monsters
• Learn several new spells
• New map screen can allow gameplay to continue unpaused

It's not easy being a child of a god. In Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn, your character quickly comes to this conclusion after being imprisoned and tortured by a wizard with an unhealthy interest in your parentage. So begins this ambitious RPG based on the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game. Shadows of Amn develops the plot lines, characters and events introduced in the first game into a mature, genuinely interesting fantasy tale and you will be pleasantly surprised by Shadows of Amn's bold story arcs. Baldur's Gate served as a proving ground for the refined game mechanics evident in Shadows of Amn. Now major events are afoot, and the character's choices have a real impact on the universe of the Forgotten Realms.

The game's artificial intelligence has been vastly improved, and the player has many more choices for NPC AI scripts and party communication. Keeping with Shadows of Amn's more mature theme, the party interaction even goes so far as to include possible love interests for your character.

This double pack also includes the BG2 expansion pack, Throne of Bhaal. There are hordes more monsters to fight, a couple of new classes and kits to explore (the Wild Mage, for example), new treasures and artefacts, new quests and new dungeons and the ability to reach an unprecedented Level 40. Why wouldn't you want to meet strange new creatures, unleash strange new spells and listen to even more bizarre voice acting from the lovable Minsc? But the real reason to get this is to see the massive story finally reach a conclusion. There won't be a Baldur's Gate III and Throne of Bhaal lets you see the fate of the character that began as Gorion's young ward so many years ago in the original Baldur's Gate.

A strong plot backed by strong technology makes Baldur's Gate 2 and the Throne of Bhaal expansion stand out as one of the best RPGs you'll ever play. Fans of the AD&D game will love the classic AD&D feel, and fans of the popular Forgotten Realms setting will delight in the people, places and politics found here.

Features:

• Collection of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, and a bonus CD containing additional weapons and armor, set of four character portraits, as well as tracks from the original game soundtrack
• Epic Dungeons and Dragons adventure
• Isometric, top-down view gives a bird's eye view of the action
• 3-D height maps for realistic travel over terrain--actually climb stairs, fall into pits, and traverse rocky areas
• Rain, snow, fog, lightning, all occuring in real-time
• Explore unseen lands as you take part in an epic conflict that will define your future, and create your legend

Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate takes you back to the Forgotten Realms campaign setting on a visually dazzling role-playing adventure, one that brings to life the grand tradition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game through cutting edge art and technology. Immerse yourself in this quintessential medieval fantasy world, where nations hang in the balance of your actions, dark prophecies test your resolve, and heroic dreams can be fulfilled at last.

Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
Continue your travels on the Sword Coast with the next set of adventurers in the award-winning Baldur's Gate role-playing game series. Legends of treasures lost and monsters to be defeated abound in the region. Almost all have at least some basis in truth. Are you up to the task?

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Baldur's Gate II expands the Baldur's Gate world by bringing you a new set of adventures set in the nation of Amn. Baldur's Gate II has a large central, nonlinear plotline which is broken down into 7-8 chapters, with lots of subquests and small adventures thrown in for variety. The number of item recovery type quests has been greatly diminished and there are be more class- and alignment-specific quests.

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal greatly extends the Baldur's Gate II experience, with approximately 40 hours of additional adventures. Explore the lands of Tethyr as an epic conflict wreaks devastation on a scale never before seen in the Forgotten Realms campaign world.

Features:

• Special 4-game DVD-ROM
• Play the original Baldur's Gate game
• Includes Tales of The Sword Coast Expansion
• Explore unseen lands as you take part in an epic conflict that will define your future, and create your legend
• Venture into a deadly new dungeon
• Cast powerful new spells
• Gain amazing high-level abilities
• Play a new character kit, the Wild Mage
• Fight and summon awe-inspiring D&D characters
• Play the full version of Baldur's Gate II - Shadows of Amn, you will face deadly foes armed with your wits, skills and magic -- collect allies and form a party that takes you into the hostile land of Amn for treasure and glory
• Also features real-time gameplay and the ability to pause at any time -- plus all-new multiplayer games for up to 6 players
• In Baldur's Gate II - Throne of Bhaal, you'll uncover the mysteries of Watcher's Keep, explore new dungeons, and use the all-new character called the Wild Mage